MANILA, Philippines—Newly appointed Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen will hand the petition filed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that sought to dismiss the P366-million plunder case filed against her in connection with the mishandling of intelligence funds from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

Leonen is the third justice assigned to handle the petition filed by Mrs. Arroyo, now a lawmaker from Pampanga.

Last month, Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta inhibited from handling the case because he is related to a lawyer of one of Arroyo’s co-accused.

Then, the case was assigned to Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe who included the case from those that she has unloaded.

Under Section 10 of the Internal Rules of the Supreme Court, the average caseload of each member of the high court shall be determined by dividing the total number of pending cases of all 15 members by 15. The newly appointed member shall inherit the caseload of the member being replaced and to make equal the number of cases being handled by each member, there will be an unloading of cases by the more senior justices.

At the same time, the high court has consolidated the petitions filed by Arroyo to similar petitions filed by her co accused The high court decided to consolidate the petitions of Arroyo, Raymundo Roquero, and another accused, Nilda Plaras.

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I’m guessing Justice Leonen’s decision will be akin to a truce. And then the midget still goes to prison. The titanic is more salvageable than macapal arrobos reputation.

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The assignment of newly-appointed AJ Marvic Leonen to handle gma’s consolidated petitions may be regarded as a bad sign for the pandak as Justice Leonen is viewed as naturally beholden to the appointing authority.

But many experts say it’s not so as Marvic Leonen at 49, the youngest ever to be appointed to the high court, has impressive credentials – former dean of UP College of Law who received his Master of Laws from the Columbia University in New York, is known for his independence of mind and a veteran and persuasive negotiator with the MILF.

Gma’s petitions must be resolved immediately and everybody is waiting how the new Associate Justice’s first significant case will be written, scrutinized and voted by his senior peers.

With luck like that, expect “Our Lady of VMMC” [thanks EE!] to manifest yet another apparition of a medical crisis while seated on the throne of the unholy Houdini wheelchair.

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Who is the Mastermind?(LOLONG)

Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada’s Universal Entertainment (Universal) had paid as much as $30 million to a former Pagcor consultant in 2010 received by Rodolfo Soriano, a former Pagcor consultant and purported Genuino bagman.

Your_King

The SC is scared to handle the Arroyo case because they know that if they handle it they will have no choice to junk the case because they all know that that case is junk. However, they are all scared that Aquino will impeach them or attack them somehow if they decide to junk the junk and weak case. So it looks like Aquino appointed his Justice to be the one to handle this case so Aquino can get what he wants. Sneaky Aquino.